US Patent Issued to LG Energy Solution on Oct. 20 for "Slot die coater" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,543, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Slot die coater" was invented by Taek-Soo Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Shin-Wook Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin-Ho Cho (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sang-Hoon Choy (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a slot die coater capable of uniformly forming a coating boundary formed in a machine direction (MD). The slot die coater includes at least two die blocks; a shim plate provided between the two die blocks to form a slot; and a manifold provided in the die block and configured to accommodate a coating solution, wherein the coa...